Just found a Gold Cup 10MM at the local gunshop

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Gee, I found a NIB that I bought for $900.00 a year ago. I've seen them for sale on GUNBROKER for up to $1500.00. TOOOOOOO much money and I'm not a sucker.
 
No, not all Delta Elites are Gold Cups, but NONE of them are worth $2000!

Just buy a Glock 20. Better gun anyway.
 
All Delta Elite Gold Cups have that embossed on the slide. About 500 produced from what I hear. I really enjoy mine. You can find Deltas for alot less. Nice gun. Its just a matter of what you like. Others in 1911 configuration, include but are not limited to:

S&W Autos -- You can find these plentiful. $400 - $600 depending on model
Kimber
Dan Wesson in various configs: Razorback, Pointman, Global Hunter ect
Witness
S&W 610 revolvers: fires 10mm and 40 S&W. :D
Glock: Good for a "polymer gun" :uhoh:
Others

10mm's are for shooters, hunters, ect. Reloaders make out best because of all the choices available for reloading.
 
I have the Kimber Target II in 10mm, and I paid $1000 for it!! I suspect I could have saved $100 or so if I had shopped around, but no guarantee there. Anyway, I really like the 10mm and it has never malfunctioned and is very accurate. I'm still learning the gun, and developing handloads for it. I have a couple of Browning Hi-Powers in .40 and a S&W M646 also in .40 and it's convenient that they use the same bullets. I don't think I would like the 10mm so much if I weren't a handloader. OTOH, I wouldn't enjoy shooting anything as much if I weren't reloading. ;)
 
Colt Delta Gold Cup

I bought a slightly used Colt Delta Gold Cup 10mm about 4 years ago for $800 in an Internet sale. I had watched for one for quite a while, and that was the best price I had seen.

I thought the trigger pull was a little heavy, so for $50 I had a gunsmith do a trigger job and lighten it to 4.0 lbs. I have put maybe 250 rounds through the gun, and it shoots quite well. I didn't realize that only 500 or 750 or these had been made. Generally I shoot 1911's in .45 caliber, so this gun mainly sits in the safe.
 
I have not seen a 10mm Gold Cup sell for over $1K.

There was one on Auction Arms a few weeks ago that sold for that sum.
 
Lennyjoe said:
And they wanted $1999 for it. :what: :what:
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Now that makes me just want to cry. A gun dealer friend of mine took a LNIB Delta Gold Cup stainless in trade and asked me how much I though it was worth. He's not real familiar with the 10mm market, and I offered the opinion that he should be able to get at least $600 for it. Told me if I wanted to buy it for that he'd sell it. Didn't have the cash for it, so I declined. Maybe I should have put it on plastic.:mad:
 
A year ago I found a stainless one w/about 500 rounds of brass, dies and a holster IIRC that was marked about $699, and the shop manager told me he'd let it got for $525. I went in the next day, and he told me $699 plus tax. :barf: Great gun but I was really taken back by the way he changed the tune on the price when I showed serious interest.

At any rate, I found a like new stainless standard Delta for less than a used XD-9, so he can pound sand.

I know it's a free market, but the only thing that ads like that do for us is to run up gun prices.
 
Sheesh!

Lennyjoe said:
And they wanted $1999 for it. :what: :what:
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Call Wilson Combat and order one of their CQB pistols in 10mm for $101.00 more! You'll have a pistol that's guaranteed to print a 1" group @ 25 yards!

The GC Delta Elite won't guarantee that! What makes a pistol beautiful, is what it does. "Form follows function".

Scott
 
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